Sakaryaspor

Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği, commonly known as Sakaryaspor, is a Turkish professional football club based in Adapazarı, the capital of Sakarya Province. Founded in 1965, the club competes in the TFF First League, the second tier of the Turkish football league system. Sakaryaspor play their home matches at the 28,113-capacity New Sakarya Stadium, and traditionally wear green and black striped shirts. The club has a strong regional following and is known for its rivalry with Kocaelispor.

Sakaryaspor

Full name	Sakaryaspor Kulübü Derneği
Founded	17 June 1965
Ground	New Sakarya Stadium, Adapazarı[1]
Capacity	28,113[1]
President	Cumhur Genç[1]
Head coach	İrfan Buz
League	TFF 1. Lig
2024–25	TFF 1. Lig, 13th of 20
Website	https://www.sakaryaspor.com.tr/
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

History

The club was formed in 1965 after the merger of Adapazarı Gençlerbirliği, Adapazarı İdman Yurdu, Güneşspor and Ada Gençlik. The club is better known as Sakaryaspor.

The football club is nicknamed the "Football Factory" by Turkish football scene because of the many national footballers born and raised in the city. Sakarya Province has also five national top scorers (Hakan Şükür, Aykut Kocaman, Bülent Uygun, Aykut Yiğit, Ogün Altıparmak) of all time and three of them did carry the Sakaryaspor shirt. Sakaryaspor became TFF First League champions in 1980–81 and 1986–87. They accomplished this feat again at the end of the 2005–06 season. Sakaryaspor subsequently won a place in the play–off matches. After eliminating İstanbulspor in the first play–off match, Sakaryaspor went on to defeat Altay 4–1 in the finals and were promoted to the Süper Lig. They were relegated from the Süper Lig the following season.

In 1988 the team won the Turkish Cup, with some of the Turkish football legends like Oğuz Çetin, Hakan Şükür, Engin İpekoğlu and Aykut Kocaman in the squad.

In 2022, it became the champion of Turkey's third professional league, the 2st league, and was promoted to the 1st league. In the 2023-2024 season, it played the play-off final match with Bodrum Football Club.

Supporters and rivalries

Sakaryaspor fans call themselves "Tatangalar", which was founded in 1990 and means "Bisons". The name Tatanga (Tatanka) comes from the movie Dances with Wolves. The word Tatanga (plural Tatangalar) became the nickname of the club over time. Kocaelispor is considered as the archrival and the supporters have friendly ties with Göztepe.

League participations

• Turkish Super League: 1981–86, 1987–90, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2006–07
• TFF First League: 1965–81, 1986–87, 1990–98, 1999–04, 2005–06, 2007–09, 2011–12, 2022–
• TFF Second League: 2009–11, 2012–13, 2017–2022
• TFF Third League: 2013–17

Achievements

• Second League Category A:
  • Winners (2): 2004, 2006
• Second League:
  • Winners (2): 1998, 2011
• Third League:
  • Winners (1): 2017
• Turkish Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1988

European participations

As of 9 November 1988

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	4	1	0	3	3	7	–4

European Cup Winners' Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1988–89	1R	Békéscsabai	2–0	0–1	2–1
	2R	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–3	1–3	1–6

UEFA Ranking history

See also: UEFA coefficient

As of 1993

Season	Rank	Points	Ref.
1989	204	0.500	[2]
1990	201	0.500	[3]
1991	206	0.500	[4]
1992	216	0.500	[5]
1993	178	0.500	[6]

Current squad

As of 14 August, 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  TUR Oğuzhan Açıl 4 DF  TUR Batuhan Çakır 5 DF  TUR Sadık Çiftpınar 8 MF  BUL Atanas Kabov 9 FW  POL Lukasz Zwolinski 10 MF  COD Gaël Kakuta 11 FW  CAN Umechi Akuazaoku 14 MF  TUR Emre Demir (on loan from Fenerbahçe) 21 DF  TUR Serkan Yavuz 22 DF  TUR Alaaddin Okumuş 26 DF  GRE Dimitrios Kolovetsios 29 GK  POL Jakub Szumski 34 GK  TUR Göktuğ Baytekin (on loan from Beşiktaş) 36 MF  TUR Burak Altıparmak 54 MF  TUR Burak Çoban

No. Pos. Nation Player 61 FW  TUR Abdurrahman Bayram 77 FW  TUR Eren Erdoğan 88 DF  TUR Caner Erkin 94 DF  TUR Doğukan Tuzcu 96 MF  BIH Rijad Kobiljar 99 FW  TUR Burak Yıldız — DF  TUR Salih Dursun — FW  TUR Emrah Başsan — MF  TUR Temel Çakmak — DF  TUR Uğurhan Uğurlu — DF  TUR Berat Can Şanlı — DF  TUR Yunus Emre Çetin — GK  TUR Yunus Emre Tekoğul — DF  TUR Yusuf Karakuzu

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player